Paid $3.08 a gallon tonight. Actually down 11 cents from a couple of weeks ago. The world must be coming to an end.

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Madison wrote:Paid $3.08 a gallon tonight. Actually down 11 cents from a couple of weeks ago. The world must be coming to an end.

Nah ... it's just big oil companies and big government sticking it to us again. Everyone acts like it's one or the other when it's really both of them in bed together with the crooked politicians getting the campaign contributions and big oil getting big tax breaks and huge incentives.

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -- George Bernard Shaw

Madison wrote:Paid $3.08 a gallon tonight. Actually down 11 cents from a couple of weeks ago. The world must be coming to an end.

Nah ... it's just big oil companies and big government sticking it to us again. Everyone acts like it's one or the other when it's really both of them in bed together with the crooked politicians getting the campaign contributions and big oil getting big tax breaks and huge incentives.

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -- George Bernard Shaw

I would place the blame on the people who actually set the prices, the traders.
However, I'm not letting the government off so easily. They should create incentive for oil companies to build refineries.
The oil companies only make about 9 cents per gallon no matter what the price is. I don't place too much blame on them. I also have to add that their record profits pad many a portfolio. If you're mad at the energy companies for record profits you must be pissed as heck that Starbucks is also recording high profits.

A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to thegrocery store he pays 60 cents a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won't last a weekhe normally buys two dozens at a time.

One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to 72 cents.The next time he buys groceries, eggs are .76 cents a dozen. When asked toexplain the price of eggs the store owner says, "the price has gone up and Ihave to raise my price accordingly".

This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. I checked around for a better priceand all the distributors have raised their prices. The distributors havebegun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been drivenout of business.

He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000 dozeneggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of eggs.

This pattern continues until the price of eggs is 2.00 a dozen. The mansays,"there must be something we can do about the price of eggs".

He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stopbuying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed eggs. Finally, the mansuggested only buying what you need.

He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the groceryand buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day.

The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in hiscooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs. Maybe wouldn'tneed any all week.

The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge eggfarms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not need any for at leasttwo weeks.

At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs.

The distributor told the grocery store owner that he would lower the priceof the eggs if the store would start buying again. The grocery store ownersaid, "I don't have room for more eggs. The customers are only buy 2 or 3eggs at a time". "Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back down to the original price,the customers would start buying by the dozen again".

Finally, the egg farmers lowered the price of their eggs. But only a fewcents. The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. They said, "when the priceof eggs gets down to where it was before, we will start buying by thedozen."

Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to slashtheir prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers. The eggfarmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn't buy at a higherprice than they were selling eggs for.

Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a while.

And them chickens kept on laying.

Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were throwing awayeggs they couldn't sell.. The distributors started buying again because theeggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell them at the lowerprice.

And the customers starting buying by the dozen again.

Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry.

What if everyone only bought $10.00 worth of gas each time they pulled tothe pump. The dealers tanks would stay semi full all the time. The dealerswouldn't have room for the gas coming from the huge tank farms. The tankfarms wouldn't have room for the gas coming from the refining plants. Andthe refining plants wouldn't have room for the oil being off loaded from thehuge tankers coming from the Middle East.

Just $10.00 each time you buy gas. Don't fill it up. You may have to stopfor gas twice a week but, the price should come down.

Think about it.

As an added note..When I buy $10.00 worth of gas,that leaves my tank alittle under half full. The way prices are jumping around, you can buy gasfor $2.65 a gallon and then the next morning it can be $2.15. If you haveyour tank full of $2.65 gas you don't have room for the $2.15 gas. You mightnot understand the economics of only buying two eggs at a time but, youcan't buy cheaper gas if your tank is full of the high priced stuff.

Also, don't buy anything else at the gas station, no cigarettes, no bread,milk or chewing gum, don't give them any more of your hard earned money thanwhat you spend on gas, until the prices come down.. Oh, some folks may notsee this message. Can you afford to print 10 at a time and pass them outwhere you buy gas? If you can afford more, you may think of putting them onwindshields at the mall.

Fireball Express wrote:If you're mad at the energy companies for record profits you must be pissed as heck that Starbucks is also recording high profits.

Big difference in that comparison. Starbucks is a luxury. No one will literally die without Starbucks coffee, and people can always go with cheaper brands, so paying high prices is a choice in the Starbucks example.

Gas, heating oil, and electric, are not things that people can simply do without. We have to purchase those products, and no matter what they cost, we will have to continue to purchase those products. Robbing people for no reason on things they must have in order to survive is a pathetic practice, and people have the right to be upset when they know they are getting robbed for no reason.

Interesting post WR. Not sure it would work, but it does make you think.

Yes doctor, I am sick.Sick of those who are spineless.Sick of those who feel self-entitled.Sick of those who are hypocrites.Yes doctor, an army is forming.Yes doctor, there will be a war.Yes doctor, there will be blood.....